Enthralled by TIE!
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- Mar 16
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Education Scotland is promoting gender ideology in our schools and we must ask the following searching questions -
Why has ‘transgenderism’, an ill-defined and unproven concept been tacked on to LGB by TIE? And why has Education Scotland, our key institution for overseeing and evaluating our education system fallen for the junk science of gender ideology?
Why is Education Scotland presiding over the school guidance, ‘Supporting Transgender Pupils in Schools? Guidance which has been heavily criticized by a range of experienced professionals? (Brown 2022/23, Cunningham 2023). Guidance which fails entirely to present an accurate and balanced view of the issues relating to the concept of ‘transgender’?
And why can parents and other interested parties external to education, not access all of the TIE training materials?
Now read our latest blog here for all the answers:
It would appear that Education Scotland favours the promotion of ideology over objectivity. Education Scotland is Scotland’s major institution for overseeing its education system. It aims to provide objective assessment and improvement of Scottish education’s function and operation. On its website Education Scotland states that it,
‘Supports the quality and improvement of education in Scottish education and thereby securing the delivery of better learning experiences and outcomes for Scottish learners of all ages.’
It also states,
‘Our status as an executive agency means that we operate independently and impartially….’.
Yet Education Scotland endorses gender ideology as part of our teachers’ professional development.
Education Scotland and Time for Inclusive Education (TIE)
On its website, Time For Inclusive Education (TIE) features Gillian Hamilton, Education Scotland’s CEO. She states,
‘Having completed the robust endorsement process, TIE has demonstrated that its programme is impactful, quality assured, extremely well evaluated and clearly informed by professional teaching standards.'
What is Time for Inclusive Education? (TIE)
TIE is a Scottish based charity. It states in its literature that it aims to address, ‘homophobic, biphobic and transphobic prejudice and bullying through education.’ On its website TIE states,
‘We create resources for schools, run workshops and assemblies for young people, and deliver professional learning for teachers on behalf of the Scottish Government.’
Regarding teachers, TIE states, ‘It is the Scottish Government’s expectation that all teachers in Scotland will engage with the National Approach to LBGT Inclusive Education…..Both Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the professional learning course have been formally endorsed by Education Scotland…. training… requires the attendance of all teaching staff.
If this input was being provided by experts in child development about the best ways to support LGB children and teenagers, that would be a welcome input for teachers in our schools. But TIE staff are not psychologists or professionals with extensive knowledge of the psychology of child development. Furthermore, TIE attaches the term ‘transgender’ to LGB. The problem with the concept of ‘transgenderism’ is that not only is it ill-defined and meaningless, it is an adult concept relating to predominantly adult fetishistic behaviour. The Cass Report and various other studies clarify that while there are children who are confused about their sexual development and sexuality, there is no such thing as a ‘transgender’ child as it is simply not possible to change sex.
The question remains: why is the idea of changing sex being promoted in our schools? And why is the Scottish Government investing so much of taxpayers’ money in TIE and other organisations which promote the T?
TIE Resources
Most of the TIE resources used in schools cannot be accessed by parents or interested observers. TIE CPD materials advise about the positive effects of using breast binders; how to use pronouns; how to affirm children and support social transitioning. The materials also advise illegally on gender neutral toilets and misquote the Equality Act regarding males accessing female toilets.
The TIE framework and impact on Scottish schools
TIE states in its Outcomes Reports that all Scottish local authorities, from Highlands to Scottish Borders, are registered on their platform. In the year 22/23 TIE worked in 257 schools (primary and secondary) taught nearly 15000 Scottish pupils using TIE resources. It has delivered training to nearly 3000 student teachers.
What is TIE telling teachers?
Pronouns
The advice to teachers encourages them to be ‘led by the ‘transgender’ young person and to use the child’s self-declared pronouns on the basis of ‘gender identity’ not their biological sex. This is because, as stated in one teaching session, ‘Using particular pronouns is a indication of someone’s gender identity.’ Teachers are also told,‘Using the correct pronouns is the right and respectful approach to including transgender young people.’ Teachers are also told that they should also avoid ‘dead naming’ children ie referring to them by their family given name. This is not in keeping with Cass recommendations and risks alienating parents
Toilet Facilities and Changing Rooms
TIE materials tell teachers that the provision of single sex toilets and changing facilities are organised on the basis of ‘social convention’. TIE claims, illegally, that schools toilets should be organized on the basis of ‘gender identity’ rather than biological sex.
Sports and PE
The materials advise that the ‘transgender’ young person should be allowed to take part in the group that matches their ‘gender identity’.
Regarding TIE’s approach, many professionals’ view is that such promotion of gender ideology will impact on all school pupils negatively, not just pupils who identify as ‘transgender’. One major reason for this approach causing harm across the school context is that this ideological approach, is seeking to pressure children into colluding with a pseudoscientific approach with no basis in either reality or science, thereby causing confusion and anxiety.
In hundreds of Scottish schools, TIE has embedded gender ideology across the curriculum including subjects like Maths, Art, and English. It has done this through the use of TIE-led activities, discussions, books, posters and worksheets. TIE materials are integrated through core curriculum and cross curricular subjects which obviously removes the option of withdrawing children from class. What the TIE approach has sought and is seeking to do is to embed itself across the whole school in terms of its processes, procedures and overall planning. This really can only be described as grooming and indoctrination by stealth.
In 2021, TIE was awarded £380,900 in Government funding to manage a project to embed LGBT inclusive education across the school curriculum.
Gillian Hamilton CEO of Education Scotland states that TIE measures up to a ‘robust endorsement process’. She maintains that TIE has demonstrated that its programme is impactful. The evidence for this is questionable; go on the TIE website, look at its Outcomes Report 2023-2024. You will find data such as number of pupils worked with and number of staff trained and examples of self-reported materials on TIE’s ‘achievements’. There is no data about improved attainment in schools or improved outcomes relating to education. This document was written by TIE staff.
It is an excellent example of an organisation marking its own homework. So much for Education Scotland’s claims of objectivity.
References
Brown, C., 2022, Gender ideology a hindrance if a pupil identifies as trans November 17th www.thetimes.co.uk
Brown, C.,2023/4 scotpag.com
Cunningham, J., 2023, Transgender Ideology in Scottish Schools: What’s wrong with government guidance? Scottish Union for Education.
https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/
https://forwomen.scot/28/05/2024/whats-happening-in-your-childs-school/
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